The most anti-Israel President in American history knows what's in Israel's best interest? Like turning the first Muslim country to make a peace deal with Israel over to the Muslim Brotherhood and giving them billions? Like siding with jihadists in Gaza, Libya, et al? Like standing aside and letting the genocidal Islamic regime in Iran build a nuclear weapon? Like naming an anti-semite (Hagel) as Secretary of Defense? Like naming a pro-jihadist (Bennan) to head the CIA? Best interests like that, Mo?

Mo is telling us that Israel doesn't know what's in her best interest? Survival is in her best interests. But according to an Islamophile like Obama, annihilation would be in Israel's best interest. The very existence of Israel is offensive to every devout Muslim.Which is why every time a Jew builds a home in the Jewish homeland, heads explode in the White House and the Muslim world.

This was knowable in presidential election of 2008 and certainly in 2012. I warned of this in my book,

Is it any wonder that Obama made these remarks to a vicious self-loathing Jew like Jeffry Goldberg? That constituency helped get him elected. But Jeremiah Wright, Luis Farrakhan and the rest of Obama's cabal are rubbing their hooves in glee. Mission accomplished.

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg has an eye-opening piece for
Bloomberg that reveals in stark terms what President Obama really
thinks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Israel
itself. As The Telegraph’s Middle East correspondent Robert Tait reports:

The damning assessment of the Israeli prime minister,
relayed by senior White House officials to an American journalist,
Jeffrey Goldberg, is the most graphic sign yet of the toxic relationship
between the two men, who have clashed continually over the stalled
Middle East peace process.

Writing on the Bloomberg website, Goldberg quoted Mr Obama as
repeatedly saying, "Israel doesn't know what its own best interests are"
in response to a spate of recent announcements for thousands of new
Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank on land the
Palestinians want for a future state.

… "If Israel, a small state in an inhospitable region, becomes more
of a pariah – one that alienates even the affections of the US, its last
steadfast friend – it won't survive," Goldberg writes, paraphrasing Mr
Obama's words. "Iran poses a short-term threat to Israel's survival;
Israel's own behaviour poses a long-term one." Mr Obama also believes
the Israeli prime minister is a "political coward" who is incapable of
making concessions to the Palestinians because he has "become captive of
Jewish settler lobby".

President Obama’s contempt for Netanyahu is already well known, as he
amply displayed in a private meeting with then French president Nicolas
Sarkozy at the G-20 in November 2011, where he reportedly told his French counterpart in reference to the Israeli PM: “you’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!” Obama refused to meet with
Netanyahu when he visited the United States in September last year,
while finding the time to appear on the David Letterman show, and has a long track record of snubbing the Israeli PM.

Obama’s latest comments, conveyed by Jeffrey Goldberg, take the US
president’s hostility against Netanyahu to new heights, and are a major
diplomatic faux pas ahead of next week’s Israeli election, which
Netanyahu is widely expected to win. It will undoubtedly set the tone
for his entire approach towards Israel, and will further strain
relations between Washington and Jerusalem during his second term. They
also reveal a remarkable degree of antipathy towards America’s closest
friend and ally in the Middle East, and an unhealthy willingness to
intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation state. There are
echoes of the president’s unwelcome intervention in the British debate
over membership of the European Union last week, when the senior State
Department official for European affairs specifically warned Britain
against an EU exit.

Barack Obama’s sneering reference to Israel as “a small state” that
is already “a pariah,” and one that may not even survive unless it
changes its “behaviour,” smacks of staggering condescension, and will be
music to the ears of every enemy of Israel on the face of the earth.
This is not a message the president of the United States should be
sending to a brave ally that faces a huge range of threats, from Iran’s
nuclear programme to a host of terrorist organisations, including Hamas
and Hezbollah. President Obama claims to be a friend of Israel, but his
words and actions strongly suggest otherwise. And as for Israel’s best
interests, they are far better defended by Benjamin Netanyahu than the
current occupant of the White House, who is much happier giving
America’s allies the boot than he is standing up to his country’s
adversaries. Mr. Netanyahu clearly understands the nature of the threat
Israel faces. Mr. Obama evidently does not.

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[M]Obama: "Israel doesn't know what its own best interests are"

The most anti-Israel President in American history knows what's in Israel's best interest? Like turning the first Muslim country to make a peace deal with Israel over to the Muslim Brotherhood and giving them billions? Like siding with jihadists in Gaza, Libya, et al? Like standing aside and letting the genocidal Islamic regime in Iran build a nuclear weapon? Like naming an anti-semite (Hagel) as Secretary of Defense? Like naming a pro-jihadist (Bennan) to head the CIA? Best interests like that, Mo?

Mo is telling us that Israel doesn't know what's in her best interest? Survival is in her best interests. But according to an Islamophile like Obama, annihilation would be in Israel's best interest. The very existence of Israel is offensive to every devout Muslim.Which is why every time a Jew builds a home in the Jewish homeland, heads explode in the White House and the Muslim world.

This was knowable in presidential election of 2008 and certainly in 2012. I warned of this in my book,

Is it any wonder that Obama made these remarks to a vicious self-loathing Jew like Jeffry Goldberg? That constituency helped get him elected. But Jeremiah Wright, Luis Farrakhan and the rest of Obama's cabal are rubbing their hooves in glee. Mission accomplished.

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg has an eye-opening piece for
Bloomberg that reveals in stark terms what President Obama really
thinks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Israel
itself. As The Telegraph’s Middle East correspondent Robert Tait reports:

The damning assessment of the Israeli prime minister,
relayed by senior White House officials to an American journalist,
Jeffrey Goldberg, is the most graphic sign yet of the toxic relationship
between the two men, who have clashed continually over the stalled
Middle East peace process.

Writing on the Bloomberg website, Goldberg quoted Mr Obama as
repeatedly saying, "Israel doesn't know what its own best interests are"
in response to a spate of recent announcements for thousands of new
Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank on land the
Palestinians want for a future state.

… "If Israel, a small state in an inhospitable region, becomes more
of a pariah – one that alienates even the affections of the US, its last
steadfast friend – it won't survive," Goldberg writes, paraphrasing Mr
Obama's words. "Iran poses a short-term threat to Israel's survival;
Israel's own behaviour poses a long-term one." Mr Obama also believes
the Israeli prime minister is a "political coward" who is incapable of
making concessions to the Palestinians because he has "become captive of
Jewish settler lobby".